September 2005
As our chartering season draws to a close, we once again, thank our clients, who have made this an enjoyable and successful summer.
With large schools of sardines, also visiting our waters this summer, we can only wonder what next year will bring. As fall hits the air, we are antsy to follow the flocks of geese overhead, heading south. We will share a good part of fall and winter, with wildlife on the plains of North America and Africa.
By the end of September, please send inquiries either by email or postal letter. Please allow up to one week for a reply to an email, and two weeks for a reply to a postal letter. We will do our best to be prompt.
If everything goes as planned, we will be home in March 2006, ready to do it all over again.
August 2005
After a week of sunshine, we have just about forgotten how soggy July was.
Halibut fishing continues to be unpredictable. Coho fishing is good and we are still selling king salmon stamps!
Ocean temperatures are in the low 60s. We are thinking about adding tropical sunfishes to our wildlife charters.
Can’t wait to see what September brings, besides the close of our charter season for 2005.
July 2005
This month started off damp. Ocean temperatures are noticeably warmer.
Silver salmon are already here and king salmon are still around. Halibut fishing, however, has been poor.
Blueberries have ripened early. Hummingbirds and phalaropes are heading south! Tufted puffins, bald eagles and humpback whales are still in their feeding mode.
Your guess of what August will bring, is as good as ours!
June 2005
Frankly, we don’t know what to think. As soon as Fish and Game predicts an abundance of king salmon and increases the bag limits, the king harvest becomes less predictable. Silver salmon used to show up in July, but some are already here. Halibut fishing has also been slower than expected. Thus far, it has truly been a “fishy” summer.
We haven’t noticed any major changes in our wildlife sightings, but need a little more time, to compare it to previous years.
We haven’t had a blistering hot day for awhile, but are still on the dry side, and the banana slugs are laying low.
May 2005
It continues to be unusually dry and warm. If the current weather pattern holds, we'll be advising our clients to bring sun hats and shorts!
While we don't know what to expect of the weather, we are expecting a lot of king salmon. The State's Sport Fish Division has liberalized the daily bag limit for residents to three king salmon, and increased the annual limit for nonresidents to five king salmon.
We are suspicious of too much of a good thing, however. Ocean temperatures affect the location and availability of animals at the bottom of the food chain. This can have a dire impact on the reproduction of marine birds, if they cannot find enough to eat.
April 2005
It’s been a different spring—on the warm side. It’s also odd that I’m getting by without having to refill my bird feeders every day. The herring decided to spawn away from our place, drawing their predators with them.
Storm fronts have brought high winds and large ocean swells, but we still managed to sneak out a few times and found lots of king salmon out there!
The sun’s up before we are and we’re done for the day before it gets dark. Summer must be on its way.
